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AARON BRITT | 31 LBS , 9 OZ
By Tyler Brinks
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photo by matt pace
I
n his rookie season on Tour,
California’s Aaron Britt was one of
the last anglers to qualify for the
Forrest Wood Cup with a 39th-place
finish in the standings. He made the
most of it with a top-10 finish by utiliz-
ing topwater baits to target bass feed-
ing on blueback herring.
Britt describes his practice as “bru-
tal,” but says he caught two quality
fish that were busting on herring at
his very first stop during practice.
There, he found a series of points
near Shull Island, approximately six
miles south of takeoff. Since he never
found anything else during practice,
he spent the entirety of the tourna-
ment in this area.
“The points were 8 or 9 feet deep
and dropped to 20 or 25 feet, but I was
catching suspended fish that were sit-
ting over 13 to 18 feet of water,” he says.
There was a three-hour window in
the morning with heavy surface feed-
ing, and then the fish would surface
roughly every 30 minutes for the rest of
the day.
“The first day I would fish near the
bottom with plastics, and if they came
up chasing I couldn’t reel back in fast
enough to make a cast with a topwa-
ter,” Britt recalls. “By the second day, I
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